U.S.: Iran missile test 'likely' violated U.N. resolution

CNN ^ | October 12, 2015 | Jim Sciutto

[McGruff]

Iran's test this weekend of a new surface-to-surface ballistic missile "likely" violated a U.N. resolution, an administration official told CNN on Monday.

Based on information the administration has so far, the test appears to be in violation of U.N. Security Council Resolution 1929, which stipulates that Iran cannot engage in any activities related to ballistic missiles.

[Norm Lenhart]

In whatever is left of the world after being nuked, if there is any justice, everyone involved with this deal, including any surviving voters that elected these people, Dem and GOP alike, will be thrown into Thunderdome.

[SJackson]

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[manc]

Oh a red line as it works so well for this fairy in chief.

[jackal7163]

Was the ink even dry on the nuclear deal?

[daniel1212]

“However, the effects produced by a nuclear explosion were not fully realized until the “Johnston Island Test” in 1962.

Which date of realization seems to conflict with the finding of the the Teak test performed during Operation Hardtack.

Which caused communications impairment over a widespread area in the Pacific basin. This was due to the injection of a large quantity of fission debris into the ionosphere. The debris prevented normal ionospheric reflection of high-frequency (HF) radio waves back towards Earth, which disrupted most long-distance HF radio communications. The nuclear detonation occurred at 1050 UTC on 1 August 1958 (which was 11:50 p.m., Johnston Island local time, on 31 July 1958)

The detonation spread a layer of fission debris in the upper atmosphere and destroyed the ability of the normally ionized layers of the upper atmosphere to bend radio waves back to the Earth, thus cutting many trans-Pacific high-frequency communications circuits. This blackout lasted 9 hours in Australia and at least 2 hours in Hawaii. Honolulu telephone service was apparently not affected; the Honolulu police registered over 1,000 extra calls that night as startled residents asked for information on what they had seen.

[SpinnerWebb]

Iran has right to long range missiles now that they have the right to nuclear bombs.

You sure as heck don't wanna fire one with a short-range missile.

[Idaho_Cowboy]

These missiles are for peaceful purposes just like the rest of their Nuke program. Once all who don't bow to the will of Alah are gone it will be peaceful: not!

[familyop]

"Which date of realization seems to conflict with the finding of the the Teak test performed during Operation Hardtack."

That's because the shot reported on by the Marine Corps College was probably the Starfish Prime shot. There were several different tests between 1958 and 1962.

Hardtack Teak was done at only 76.8 kilometers, well below the F layer of the ionosphere. It only temporarily blocked waves between the ground and the F(2) Layer (re. HF communications) and was blocked by atmosphere to the sides of it from causing damage over a wide area. Our atmosphere also cleans up debris messes fairly quickly.

The Starfish Prime shot was done at an altitude of about 400 kilometers (about 250 miles), well above the F layer, and left an artificial radiation belt hanging there for months.

The information is easy to find from quite a few sources.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Fishbowl#Starfish_Prime

Shots conducted at lower altitudes do less lateral damage because of lateral atmospheric obstruction. Shots conducted at far higher altitudes would cause damage for far greater lateral distances, because the pulses would approach wider areas of the upper atmosphere from above.

So yes, high altitude shots conducted by Iran in advance of strikes closer to the ground would cause lasting damage to communications equipment and other equipment (including damage from radiation at much higher frequencies to computer equipment in vehicles, satellites, etc.). Much of the damage from EMP strikes would be very different from what might be caused by a strong coronal mass ejection from the sun (more of a long wave problem on the ground).

The atmosphere is not very thick for very far above our heads. One tenuously related way to find out is to travel to a location somewhere above 3,000 meters elevation (or above 9,000 feet), try to go jogging and stay out in the sun for a day. Somewhat tenuous, but it makes the point to folks from the lowlands.

[familyop]

US navy returns to celestial navigation amid fears of computer hack
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/11931403/US-navy-returns-to-celestial-navigation-amid-fears-of-computer-hack.html

But computer "hacks" are not the main concern. Possibilities of EMPs and increasing magnetosphere weaknesses are (magnetic north heading away from us faster since about 1995).